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Communicator is the comms package installed on LRM and SRM Carriers manufactured by the Quikscell Company from their various sites around the Inner Sphere. Following the introduction of their missile carriers by Quik Products Inc. (the predecessor company to Quikscell) numerous knock-offs were produced by other companies during the Age of War and later; the majority of these companies were closed down through aggressive legal action by Quikscell in the years prior to the Fourth Succession War. The only notable exception to this was Joint Equipment Systems of Alshain, who had negotiated in good faith with Quik Products Inc. to produce under license, but it isn't known if this license included use of the Communicator comms package. After the Fourth Succession War Aldis Industries of Terra began producing their own versions of the two carriers for the Com Guard; Quikscell were unwilling to launch a legal attack on a ComStar-backed company, leaving Aldis free to continue producing the vehicles, but it isn't known if Aldis are also duplicating the communications package used on the Quikscell vehicles.[173]

The Comset 86b was the communications package introduced by the Lockheed-CBM Corporation as a replacement and major update for the Centurion AeroSpace Fighter. The Comset 86b was installed by Lockheed-CBM after they had already received the Centurion production details and manufacturing license from Jalastar Aerospace in exchange for the same details on the Sabre, but only once Jalastar had stopped production of the Centurion on Panpour.[188] Detail on the comms system installed in the Centurion originally by Jalastar AeroSpace hasn't been published in a canon source yet.

The ComStar Rover communications system was a rare example of a declassified system being sold by ComStar during the Succession Wars; ComStar only licensed the electronics to the New Earth Trading Company (NETC) for the Vedette and refused to sell the technology to others, which meant that despite Vedettes being produced on numerous other worlds by other companies, only those produced by NETC were supplied with the ComStar Rover, with those produced by other companies using locally-produced software. If nothing else, the presence of the ComStar Rover in the NETC-produced vehicles was a source of prestige, if not additional capability.[189]

The Garret T11-A is considered to be an exceptional piece of communications software, although the original wing-shaped antenna highly visible on the RFL-3N Rifleman that served for centuries in the armed forces of the various Great Houses made for a popular target.[370]

The HeadMaster 41-con communications package used on the KisoIndustrialMech was a highly capable package which can support the radio and holonetwork of an entire construction team at once via encrypted frequencies, as well as being capable of network uplinks. Of the factories maintained by Osaka Heavy Metrics, the three major plants capable of producing the Headmaster 41-con software suite were destroyed during the First Succession War; it wasn't until the latter half of the thirty-first century that the technology needed to construct the software again became available, and subsequently re-entered production.[426]

The Irian E.A.R. is an incredibly powerful communication system, transmitting extremely fast data bursts on tight bands in order to make its transmissions more inconspicuous and harder to track by the enemy. The Irian E.A.R's range allows a unit equipped with it to communicate over great distances, including orbiting satellites and spaceships. The system achieves this by mounting thread-thin wires across the unit's body to create a larger sending/receiving surface. The disadvantage to this mounting, besides requiring a fair amount of the unit's body surface to function, also increases the bulk of the E.A.R. compared to other systems.[440]

The Maxim New Standard I/O was the communications system developed by Maxim Transport Industries (MTI) of Al Na'ir for use in the Maxim Hover Transport. MTI was a new start-up company founded by a retired infantry general and their first and flagship product, the Maxim, proved to be a surprising success, with MTI opening plants on Sian and Skye to produce the Maxim as well as laying plans to open factories on Atreus and Kathil. Unfortunately, several subsequent designs produced by MTI proved to be unsuccessful, leaving the company on shaky financial ground, and a huge scandal in 3037 led to the various MTI plants being acquired by other commercial interests via hostile takeovers - or direct military action.[563] With the demise of MTI the other companies changed the software used in some cases - as an example, Scarborough Manufacturers of Al Na'ir replaced the Maxim New Standard I/O with their own Scarborough Talky-2 system, already in use on Scarborough-manufactured hover vehicles such as the Scimitar and Saladin.

The O/P COMTES system, while not as advanced as Star League era systems, was still considered to be one of the most powerful communications system to have ever been installed on a combat vehicle when Bowie Industries and Gienah Combat vehicles introduced their variant of the Packrat in or around the Fourth Succession War based upon the earlier Robertson Technologies original.[645]

The StealthMat-Q Communications with MultiTrack Coordination system was able to transmit and monitor over 500 channels simultaneously, and allows each Hi-Scout to control its fleet of drones. The drones act in coordination with each other and their mother vehicle to create a "sensor chain", increasing the vehicle's detection range by over one hundred percent. The only downside to the system is that unusually-high amounts of background radiation can interfere with the MultiTrack system.

The TharHes Mini-Talk system was the standard system for Defiance Industries, having been developed by Defiance's electronics division prior to the spin-off of that division as a new corporate entity, TharHes Industries, in the late thirtieth or early thirty-first century. The TharHes Mini-Talk was notable for its superior performance compared to alternative but cheaper systems.[845]